You know... I hadn't had a proper look at the entire Boot Hill range since the company was new, and it's now beginning to dawn on me that there is a world of potential for "adventure gaming" (in contrast to "battle gaming") in that range.
I don't really game battles, or even large-scope skirmishes, in 28mm anymore so I tend to not pay much attention to 28mm miniature ranges of the sort that consist mainly of regular soldiers for "the War of Such-and-Such". Well, now that I'm looking properly at the Boot Hill range I'm struck by all the potential for doing small bands of adventurers and raiders, as well as small groups of soldiers on garrison duty or special detail, for the commotion and turmoil of 1830s northern Mexico (or what was then Northern Mexico). I knew about the Zorro figures since before, but there's so much more! Some peons and natives would still have to be scrounged up from elsewhere, but the Boot Hill figures would make an excellent backbone for such a project.
I'm not saying I'm definitely picking this up as a new project right now (I've already resolved to pick up several new projects just in the past month), but I'm putting it up there alongside pirates and samurai as historical periods of adventure that I really want to game on a "small-scope skirmish" level.